Yesterday (Friday, Aug 24th) Makkal Osai, a Tamil daily published in my homeland (ooi vei) was suspended for printing images of Jesus Christ with a cigarette.
Apparently Christian groups in Malaysia demanded the government take some action after it had been exercised so readily against the papers that published the Danish illustrations of Mohammed…
Malaysian Newspaper Suspended For Printing Jesus Cartoon
Court Orders Pirate To Switch To Windows
Scott McCausland, the guy who uploaded Star Wars: Episode III onto a Torrents network, has been court-ordered to switch from a Linux machine to a PC.
After serving 5 months in jail he was, upon release, placed on probation. The probationary sentence requires monitoring software be installed on any computer that McCausland uses. Unfortunately the [...]
Lily Allen…Singing In Simlish
Ya’knowwhat, just for doing this, the gurl wins some serious brownie points. But as twisted as a gibberish language based on a computer game trying to simulate life is though, it’s from them special-kinda-brownies! The kinda mama don’t make in the kitchen.
Coz having been high is probably a necessary element in coming to terms [...]
Will.i.am Out Solo
The album, Songs About Girls, is due out September 24/25th. It’ll be his third solo venture. This is his first single, I Got It From My Mama. The once lyrical genius has now turned into a cross between Weird Al-Yankovic and the Baha Men.
The record features Nicole from PCD. Ya’ll remember…the heffa who stole [...]
The Wikiscanner: Corporate Edits Unmasked
A CalTech student by the name of Virgil Griffith has found a way to track and trace the origins of edits made to Wikipedia’s entries.
Griffith uncovered a motha’load of shady edits. Turns out many corporations have been editing their listings and mentions in the Wikipedia database.
Griffith and his Wikiscanner have been featured in Wired and on The [...]